| In 1833 when the first European, Dr. Tolmie, passed through our valley, the Puyallup was a broad, meandering river chocked with massive log jams and subject to frequent floods. The valley floor was a maze of creeks, old growth forest and ferns growing to eight feet high. The forest in our valley was so dense that in 1878, six months after the Kopfer family took up their homestead on the south hill, they discovered that, unbeknownst to them, during those months they had been living almost within hailing distance of the booming community of Puyallup, established 25 years earlier. | |
